How wages and employment adjust to trade liberalization: Quasi-experimental evidence from Austria

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-81

  Brülhart, Marius ^a,b   Carrère, Céline ^c   Trionfetti, Federico ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Natural experiment; Regional labor supply; Spatial adjustment; Trade liberalization

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GROWTH RATE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR SUPPLY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WAGE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84858441033     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Ades Alberto F., Glaeser Edward L. Trade and circuses: explaining urban giants. Quarterly Journal of Economics 1995, 110:195-227.
2. Baier Scott L., Bergstrand Jeffrey H. The growth of world trade: tariffs, transport costs, and income similarity. Journal of International Economics 2001, 53:1-27.
3. Bernard Andrew B., Eaton Jonathan, Jensen J.Bradford, Kortum Samuel Plants and productivity in international trade. American Economic Review 2003, 93:662-675.
4. Bertrand Marianne, Duflo Esther, Mullainathan Sendhil How much should we trust differences-in-differences estimates?. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2004, 119:249-275.
5. Broda Christian, Weinstein David E. Globalization and the gains from variety. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006, 121:541-585.
6. Brülhart Marius The spatial effects of trade openness: a survey. Review of World Economics 2011, 147(1):59-83.
7. Brülhart Marius, Crozet Matthieu, Koenig Pamela Enlargement and the EU periphery: the impact of changing market potential. World Economy 2004, 27(6):853-875.
8. Buettner Thiess, Rincke Johannes Labor market effects of economic integration: the impact of re-unification in German border regions. The German Economic Review 2007, 8:536-560.
9. Chiquiar Daniel Globalization, regional wage differentials and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem: evidence from Mexico. Journal of International Economics 2008, 74:70-93.
10. Combes Pierre-Philippe, Lafourcade Miren, Mayer Thierry The trade-creating effects of business and social networks: evidence from France. Journal of International Economics 2005, 66:1-29.
11. Davis Morris A., Ortalo-Magné François Household expenditures, wages, rents. Review of Economic Dynamics 2011, 14:248-261.
12. Davis Donald R., Weinstein David E. Economic geography and regional production structure: an empirical investigation. European Economic Review 1999, 43:379-407.
13. Dickens William T., Goette Lorenz, Groshen Erica L., Holden Steinar, Messina Julian, Schweitzer Mark E., Turunen Jarkko, Ward Melanie E. How wages change: micro evidence from the international wage flexibility project. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 2007, 21:195-214.
14. Faber Benjamin Integration and the Periphery: The Unintended Effects of New Highways in a Developing Country 2009, London School of Economics, Mimeo.
15. Faini Riccardo, Galli Gianpaolo, Gennari Pietro, Rossi Fulvio An empirical puzzle: falling migration and growing unemployment differentials among Italian regions. European Economic Review 1997, 41:571-579.
16. Fidrmuc Jan Labor mobility during transition: evidence from the Czech Republic. CEPR Discussion Paper #5069 2005.
17. Frías Judith A., Kaplan David S., Verhoogen Eric A. Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data 2009, Columbia University, Mimeo.
18. Hanson Gordon H. Increasing returns, trade and the regional structure of wages. The Economic Journal 1997, 107:113-133.
19. Hanson Gordon H. Regional adjustment to trade liberalization. Regional Science and Urban Economics 1998, 28:419-444.
20. Hanson Gordon H. Market potential, increasing returns and geographic concentration. Journal of International Economics 2005, 67:1-24.
21. Head Keith, Mayer Thierry The empirics of agglomeration and trade. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics 2004, Elsevier. J.V. Henderson, J.F. Thisse (Eds.).
22. Head Keith, Mayer Thierry Regional wage and employment responses to market potential in the EU. Regional Science and Urban Economics 2006, 36:573-594.
23. Helble Matthias Border effect estimates for France and Germany combining international trade and intranational transport flows. Review of World Economics 2007, 143:433-463.
24. Helpman Elhanan The size of regions. Topics in Public Economics: Theoretical and Applied Analysis 1998, 33-54. Cambridge University Press. D. Pines, E. Sadka, I. Zilcha (Eds.).
25. Henderson J.Vernon The urbanization process and economic growth: the so-what question. Journal of Economic Growth 2003, 8:47-71.
26. Hillberry Russell, Hummels David Intranational home bias: some explanations. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2003, 85:1089-1092.
27. Hillberry Russell, Hummels David Trade responses to geographic frictions: a decomposition using micro-data. European Economic Review 2008, 52:527-550.
28. Krugman Paul Increasing returns and economic geography. Journal of Political Economy 1991, 99:483-499.
29. Miyao Takahiro A probabilistic model of location choice with neighborhood effects. Journal of Economic Theory 1978, 19:347-358.
30. Murata Yasusada Product diversity, taste heterogeneity, and geographic distribution of economic activities: market vs. non-market interactions. Journal of Urban Economics 2003, 53:126-144.
31. OECD Migration Policies and EU Enlargement: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe 2001, OECD, Paris.
32. Redding Stephen, Sturm Daniel The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification. American Economic Review 2008, 98:1766-1797.
33. Redding Stephen, Venables Anthony J. Economic geography and international inequality. Journal of International Economics 2004, 62:53-82.
34. Rosenthal Stuart S., Strange William C. Geography, industrial organization, and agglomeration. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2003, 85:377-393.
35. Sanguinetti Pablo, Volpe Martincus Christian Tariffs and manufacturing location in Argentina. Regional Science and Urban Economics 2009, 39:155-167.
36. Shields Gail M., Shields Michael P. The emergence of migration theory and a suggested new direction. Journal of Economic Surveys 1989, 3:277-304.
37. Tabuchi Takatoshi, Thisse Jacques-François Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography. Journal of Development Economics 2002, 69:155-177.
38. Zweimüller Josef, Winter-Ebmer Rudolf, Lalive Rafael, Kuhn Andreas, Wuellrich Jean-Philippe, Ruf Oliver, Büchi Simon Austrian Social Security Database. Working Paper #0903 2009, Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Welfare State, University of Linz.